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It is the summer of 1939. Ernest Tenet, a very well-to-do man, travels to Germany. Again,

one more time. This time, I believe with the blessing of his government, where here to

four, he and Graham Christie and Carmel Evans have been providing information to Van

sit out. There's an amateurs and their information, while extremely accurate, is regarded

condescendingly sometimes, I think, when I've read this. Charles, the Tenet mission is the

strangest episode of a series of strange episodes. What was the ambition? What was the thinking?

Why Ernest Tenet agreed to it and what the hopes were for the mission?

He Tenet conceives this entirely on his own, but he gets in touch with Ten Downing Street

to Horace Wilson, who then liaises with Chamberlain. Offers his services to go incognito, plausibly

deniably, as it were, to visit Ribbon Trop, his old friend, with whom he'd set up the

Anglo-German fellowship. They'd seen very little each other for about 18 months, but he

thinks that he may be able to, that he believes that Hitler and Ribbon Trop were still anxious

for friendship with this country, which even Horace Wilson, the Dio notepieesman at the

point, still found improbable. But the Downing Street has sponsored a handful of these sorts

of missions, and so they agree to do it as long as their connection is kept secret.

The mission takes him to Castle in Austria, which, fun Ribbon Trop, who is a compulsive

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